Twelfth Night or King’s Cake

• 2 Pounds of the Best Flour
• 12 Eggs
• A Cupful of Sugar<

This is a creole cake whose history is the history of the famous New Orleans carnivals celebrated in song and stories. The “King’s Cake, ” or Gateau de Roi, is inseparably connected with the origin of our now world-famed carnival balls. In fact, they owe their origin to the old Creole custom of choosing a king and queen on King’s Day, or Twelfth Night. In old Creole New Orleans, after th